CHAPTER 4.5. Greenway Easements

Chapter 4.5 added by Stats. 2015, Ch. 639, Sec. 3.

§§ 816.50–816.66 · 9 sections

• § 816.50 The Legislature finds and declares the following with regard to the development of greenways along urban waterways: (a) The restoration and preservation of…
• § 816.52 For purposes of this chapter, the following definitions apply: (a) (1) “Adjacent” means within 400 yards from the property boundary of an existing urban…
• § 816.54 (a) A greenway easement is an interest in real property voluntarily created and freely transferable in whole or in part for the purposes stated in subdivision…
• § 816.56 Only the following entities or organizations may acquire and hold a greenway easement: (a) A tax-exempt nonprofit organization qualified under Section…
• § 816.58 All interests not transferred and conveyed by the instrument creating the greenway easement shall remain in the grantor of the greenway easement, including the…
• § 816.60 Instruments creating, assigning, or otherwise transferring greenway easements shall be recorded in the office of the county recorder of the county where the…
• § 816.62 (a) No greenway easement shall be unenforceable by reason of lack of privity of contract or lack of benefit to particular land or because not expressed in the…
• § 816.64 Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to impair or conflict with the operation of any law or statute conferring upon any political subdivision the right…
• § 816.66 A greenway easement granted pursuant to this chapter constitutes an enforceable restriction, for purposes of Section 402.1 of the Revenue and Taxation Code.